ITIF does not agree with the Competition and Markets Authority's provisional findings that Apple's mobile platform has Strategic Market Status and that there are high barriers to entry and expansion.

Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Apple’s Mobile Platform

Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Apple's Mobile Platform

ITIF disagrees with the Competition and Markets Authority's provisional findings that Google's mobile platform has Strategic Market Status and that there are high barriers to entry and expansion.

Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Google’s Mobile Platform

Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Google's Mobile Platform

Following the EU's Digital Markets Act non-compliance decisions imposing fines on Apple and Meta, ITIF released a statement from Joseph V. Coniglio, director of antitrust and innovation.

EU’s DMA Fines Are Crossing the Rubicon, Says ITIF

EU's DMA Fines Are Crossing the Rubicon, Says ITIF

Statement from Joseph V. Coniglio following the EU’s DMA decisions specifying Apple’s interoperability requirements and preliminary findings that Google failed to comply with the DMA’s self-preferencing and anti-steering obligations.

EU’s DMA Actions Send Troubling Signals Across the Atlantic, Says ITIF

EU's DMA Actions Send Troubling Signals Across the Atlantic, Says ITIF

The Competition and Markets Authority’s looming decision to label Google with significant market status is the first step in a process that threatens to degrade the British consumer experience without achieving meaningful benefits to competition.

UK Antitrust Enforcers Target Google in Inaugural DMCC Investigation

The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill empowers the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to impose ex-ante rules on large digital platforms. U.S. tech leaders surpassing turnover thresholds bear heightened compliance costs, potentially hampering innovation, while Chinese firms face fewer constraints and can more easily grow in the UK market.

The UK’s Single-Firm Conduct Regulation

The UK's Single-Firm Conduct Regulation

Today’s announcement shows that the European Commission holds a misguided view of how competition law should be used to protect consumers in the era of digital platforms.

EU Commission Shows No Concrete Harm to Consumers in Antitrust Allegations Against Google; Holding ‘Open’ Operating Systems to Higher Standard Only Hurts Consumer Choice

EU Commission Shows No Concrete Harm to Consumers in Antitrust Allegations Against Google; Holding 'Open' Operating Systems to Higher Standard Only Hurts Consumer Choice

Competition Between Platform Owners and App Developers  Doesn’t Harm Innovation, Yet Policymakers Insist on  Discriminating Companies Based on Size, Says ITIF

Competition Between Platform Owners and App Developers  Doesn't Harm Innovation, Yet Policymakers Insist on  Discriminating Companies Based on Size, Says ITIF

In this challenging world, strong techno-economic cooperation between the United States and its closest allies is all the more critical, but can be undermined by the abuse of digital regulation that ultimately ends up placing undue burdens on American firms.

The CMA’s Apple and Google Designations Put Red Tape Over Reality, Says ITIF

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Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Apple’s Mobile Platform

Comments to the UK Competition and Markets Authority Regarding Its Strategic Market Status Investigation Into Google’s Mobile Platform

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